Word: moynihan
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...Moynihan, who wrote or edited 18 books, was well-known for his studies of American race relations...
...report to President Lyndon B. Johnson titled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” commonly known as the “Moynihan Report,” Moynihan pointed to the increase in the number of single-parent families as a fundamental reason for poverty and instability in African-American communities...
...statement issued last Wednesday, University President Lawrence H. Summers remembered Moynihan as a man “at the center of national and international debate on some of the most important and difficult issues of our time,” who “made profound contributions both to the life of the mind and the life of the nation...
...Time after time, he could see our nation’s next pressing challenge—and its solution—even when it was decades away from our own national conscience,” Clinton said in a tribute to Moynihan on her website...
...indeed at war, and we must act accordingly with equal measures of audacity and precaution,” Moynihan said...